Jane Buyers

Associate Professor,University of Waterloo

Selected Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2007

Images for Words/Memory for Things Stratford Gallery. Solo, curated.

2006 Into the Woods (with Mary Catherine Newcomb)Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo. Curated, two person exhibition.
  from Inscriptions. Paul Petro Multiples and Small Works , Toronto.
2005/6 Inscriptions. Robert McLaughlin, Oshawa. Solo, curated exhibition, with catalogue. Travelling to Koffler Gallery, Toronto; UW Art Gallery, Waterloo.
2000
  • Analogue (with Ingrid Nicolai), Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo
  • Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
1998
  • Botanica Barocca, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto
1997
  • The Pumphouse, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
  • Folio, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
  • Iconoclasts (with David Mcgee), McIntosh Gallery.London, Ontario
  • Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario
1996
  • Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario (catalogue)
1994
  • The Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario
  • Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto
1992
  • Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome
  • Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008

Not A One Night Stand, Paul Petro, Toronto. 3 person show
  If you go out in the Woods today..Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.
2007 Still Life, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo.
2006 Art Fiction . Art Mur, Montreal.
  Natural Selection . Paul Petro, Toronto.
2005 The Suitcase Show . Harbourfront, Toronto.
  You Get What You Get. Akau, Toronto.
2004 Toronto International Art Fair
  Art and Paper VI. Galerie d’art Jean-Claude-Bergeron, Ottawa.
2003 Genius Loci. Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery.
2002 Reading Without Words: Books as Objects . Gallery Stratford.
  Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto. Artists’ Books.
2001 Herbarium . Art Gallery of Peterborough.
 

Chronicles: The Great Canadian Printmaking Competion. Edward Day Gallery, Toronto.

  Great Lakes. Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.
2000
  • The Single Tree, London Regional Art Gallery (catalogue)
  • Cote cour, cote jardin, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal
1999
  • Ways to Remember, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
  • TSA 30: Toronto School of Art 30th Anniversary Faculty Retrospective, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.
  • Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto. A Look Back
1996
  • Second Skin, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario (catalogue)
1994
  • X-Sightings, The Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1991
  • International group show, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, (national touring). Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York; New Langton Arts, San Francisco
  • Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge, 3 person. Tom Thompson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound (provincial touring)
1990
  • Memory Work: The Post Modern Impulse in Canadian Art, London Regional Art Gallery, London (national touring)
  • Garden Project, Power Plant, Toronto
1986
  • The Interpretation of Architecture, Sandy Simpson Gallery, Toronto (catalogue)
1984
  • Something to do with Space, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto (catalogue)
  • The New City of Sculpture, YYZ, Toronto
1983
  • Chromaliving, Chromazone, Toronto
1982
  • O Kromazone, Das Institut Unzeit, Berlin
  • Monumenta, YYZ, Toronto
Public Commissions
2001 RIM Park, Waterloo. Open competition. "Golden Queen Hybrid"
  Theatre and Company, Kitchener. Invitational.
2000
  • Labatt Park, Waterloo "John Labatt Barley Field"
1997 Agricultura, Donald Forster Sculpture Park, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
Grants & Awards (selected)
2002 Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
  Awarded Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Award for Visual Arts,
2001 Honourable Mention, Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition
1996-97
  • Canada Council 'B' Grant
1995
  • UW Social Science and Humanities Grant Award
1994
  • Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
1993
  • Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
  • Ontario Arts Council Materials Assistance Grant
1991/2
  • Canada Council 'B' Grant
  • Ontario Arts Council Materials Assistance Grant
1990
  • Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
  • Canada Council Short Term/Project Cost Grant
1988
  • Ontario Arts Council Professional Grant
Selected Bibliography (Selected)
2007

Descant: Margins and Borders , vol 38, no2, Summer 2007. P 151
  156. "Inscriptions" portfolio
 

The Coast, Dec. 13-20, 2007. p. 49, Jane Kansas, "Objects of affection"

2006 The Globe and Mail, Saturday, Oct 7, p. R16. Gary Michael Dault. “Natural Selection at Paul Petro Contemporary Art”.
  The Globe and Mail, Saturday, November 15, .P. R12. Gary Michael Dault. “Black rose works make deep impression. “
  ESPACE: Sculpture, Vol 75, Spring. p. 41. Margaret Rodgers
  Fusion, Winter 2006, Vol. 30 No.1. Front cover, p.14-15, 23. Gil McElroy
  Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Friday, February 24, 2006, p. D4. Robert Reid.
  Hours, 28 septembre. p.4
  Ici, 25 octobre, p. 51
  Le Devoir, 14-15 octobre, p.E3.. Rene Viau.
  Mirror, 11 octobre, p. 56. Christine Redfern. "Fiction Addiction"
2005 The Globe and Mail, Saturday, December 31. P. R10. Gary Michael Dault
  Catalogue, Inscriptions. Texts by Carol Podedworny, Ann Ireland and Robert Enright. Robert McLaughlin Gallery and University of Waterloo Art Gallery.
2002 La Nazione, Florence, Italy. "L’opulenze che finanzia i restauri."
  Catalogue, The Single Tree. Text by Laura Millard, "The Single Tree" exhibition, London Regional Art and Historical Museums, London, Ontario.
2000
  • Montreal Gazette, June 10, p. J2, Cultivating a garden of the imagination: where nature and culture meet, Henry Lehmann
  • The Record, Kitchener, July 14, p. B3 Ready for Harvest (photograph with caption)
  • The Record, Kitchener, July 22, p.E4, Sculpture commemorates brewing industry, Donna Cooper.
1999
  • Tessera: Coincidence of the Page, Volume 27. 58-59
  • Globe and Mail, December 18, Gillian MacKay.
1997
  • Kitchener-Waterloo Record, September 30, p.6. Robert Reid
  • Globe and Mail, November 22, p.C16 A garden of artistic delight, Gillian MacKay
  • Guelph Mercury, October 1. P.A5
  • Tessera: Work/Le Travail, Volume 22. P.68-70
  • Second Skin: Looking at the Garden Again (catalogue), Anne McPherson
1996
  • The Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Robert Reid, July 2
  • Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Folio (catalogue) Lynne Bell and Carol Podedworny
  • Globe and Mail , June 4, p.C3. John Bentley Mays
1995
  • C Magazine, Spring 1995, p. 56, Carol Podedworny.
1992
  • Globe and Mail, Kate Taylor, October 16th.
  • Citta Nuova (Rome). June
  • Catalogue, La Mèmoire postmoderne: Essai sur l'art contemporain, Mark Cheetham, postface de Linda Hutcheon.
1991
  • Catalogue. Remembering Post Modernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art, Mark Cheetham with Linda Hutcheon. Oxford University Press.
1990
  • C Magazine, Issue 26, Summer '90, J. Andreae.
1989
  • Parachute, Spring/Summer, J. Andreae.
1986
  • Catalogue The Interpretation of Architecture, Andy Patton.
1985
  • C Magazine, Winter no. 4, Donald Kuspit.
Selected Collections (Selected)
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
  • Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
  • National Capital Commission- Governor-General’s Residence, Ottawa
  • Museum of Contemporary Art , North York
  • Art Gallery of Hamilton
  • Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
  • Citicorp Canada, First Canadian Place, Toronto
  • Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
  • Detroit Edison
  • Ontario Hydro, Toronto
  • Canada Permanent Trust, Toronto
  • Toronto-Dominion Bank
  • First Federal Savings, Detroit
  • Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
  • Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
  • McDonald's Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Artist
 
  • Invited artist lecture, in conjunction with exhibition at Gallery Stratford
  Invited artist lecture, Toronto Potters Association
  Invited visiting artist lecture and critique. McMaster University
  Public lecture in conjunction with Inscriptions solo exhibition, Koffler Gallery, Toronto
2006 Public lecture in conjunction with Inscriptions solo exhibition, University of Waterloo Art Gallery
2003 Guest artist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax.
2001 Canada Council Visiting Artist, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay.
1999 Canada Council Visiting Artist, University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon and University of Regina.
1991 Guest artist, Open Studio, Toronto.
  Art Gallery of Peterborough. Sponsored by Art Gallery of Ontario “Artists’ with Their Work Program”. Lectures and workshops on sculpture, in conjunction with solo exhibition.
  Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound. Sponsored by Art Gallery of Ontario “Artists’ with Their Work Program”. Lectures and workshops on sculpture, in conjunction with solo exhibition.
  Canada Council Visiting Artist, University of Windsor.
1990 Guest artist, Colour Xerox project, Visual Arts Ontario.
Papers Presented
2006 Invited public lecture- Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture Series. Winnipeg
  “Mending: The Art of Recuperation in the work of Recent Women Artists”
2002 7th Conferenza Internazionale sulla Conservazione e IL Restauro, Florence Italy. Presented a paper ”On the Recuperative Impulse in Recent Art” for the panel Dal Testo al Testo.
2001 University Art Association of Canada Conference, University of Quebec, Montreal. Paper “Material Matters: Junk, Stuff. Things”, for panel THE ARTIST AS A MATERIAL CULTUROLOGIST OR THE MATERIAL CULTUROLOGIST AS AN ARTIST?
  Visual Arts Ontario Career Management Training Course, Queens University, Kingston, The Fine Art of Being a Professional. “Making Art and Making a Living : How to Survive as an Artist”.
Education
1990
  • Master of Education (History and Philosophy), University of Toronto
1973
  • Honours B.A. (Visual Art) York University